Put Away…

Put Away….

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Putting away the ways of our flesh is a choice.

The Lord instructs us to “put away” certain habits from our lives. The very fact that He makes it an instruction means we have control over these actions. It is our choice to keep or put away these habits.

The list of items in the above Scriptures have consequences that the Lord knows will cause us grief and He wants us to get them out of our lives. (Merriam-Webster definitions)

When we look at the definitions for these “put away” life habits, it is clear to see they are not a positive influence for our lives. This is why the Lord wants us to choose to put them away from us. It almost looks like a forceful action. We need to hate these types of actions in our lives. A picture of bees clamoring around us comes to mind. We would flee as quickly as possible from them.

Let us choose to look for any of these actions in our lives and choose to put them away. The Lord has much better life choices for us to enjoy.